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The day before "the big test" can be stressful and I usually do this activity with my students to get them to relax a little. The story is fun and the attached questions provide some higher level questions for even the best of readers.

Motivate your students by doing this lesson at the beginning of the year or before a major assessment. Using YouTube and a clip from "Facing the Giants," students analyze the meaning of the clip and apply it to their lives. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSM1mvMypWU or YouTube Facing the Giants Death Crawl

Vocab matching quiz with word bank using the following words: antagonist, protagonist, setting, character, conflict, climax, resolution, foreshadowing, theme. Answer Key is provided.

Make this fun recipe in your math class to review multiplying and dividing fractions. My students had a lot of fun and were really engaged in this math lesson!

Have students go on a scavenger hunt in their home and classroom to find different metric labels and where they are used. Students then have to create an original display of their labels. Jacob's ladders, hockey rinks, NASCAR tracks, robots, tv stations, news reports are just some that have been created from this!

Great review game before a test on China and India.

Using the given website on the worksheet, have your students complete a webquest on the general knowledge associated with World War 2.

Students can have fun writing ratios by using smarties to compare colors.

Students can use whiteboards/ paper to complete the questions. Each round has 3 levels of points.  Level 1 problems are worth 1 points, level 2 problems worth 2 points, level 3 problems are worth 3 points.  Problems get more challenging as you move to higher point levels.  Answers are revealed for each problem and students self-award points if they got their problem correctly.This is a game of strategy and skill to earn the most points by completing the level the student is most comfortable with

Use these notes to help your students learn how to complete frequency tables. Use with data distribution notes after completing line plots and you've got many lessons rolled into one.

Have the students review what they learned in a Soil and Water Unit by having them complete a project based on choice. Students have to complete one soil project, one water project, and one vocabulary project. Great way to see what students have learned over this unit.

Guided notes to help students learn about the statistical data using mean, meadian, mode and range. Scaffolded with a model and then a problem to do work independently on.

See how your students do with some of the basic vocabulary from a middle school unit on India.

Use the samples provided to show your students the difference between a writing piece and a Six Traits writing piece. Students will use close reading to identify the ways that they can enhance their writing by using the six traits.

Perfect for the primary grades, especially pre-school, this behavior chart is a great communication tool to let parents know how their child is behaving while at daycare or school.

Get two different cereals, have kids take a handful, collect data and create a box plot. A fun way to get kids involved with their math learning with a "not so fun" topic. Students get a sweet treat and apply what they know to create a box plot at the same time.

Notes on solving inequalities.

Basic instructional notes on how to add and subtract decimals. Has modeled question to do with teacher and practice questions too.

Complete cause and effect chart about the characters in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Using the NYS Common Core teaching materials, this worksheet focuses on the events of Chapter 1-4 in The Lightning Thief. Use alone or with: https://www.engageny.org/file/9891/download/6m1.1.pdfth Skills focus on common core curriculum using new common core language.